In her 2012 reconfi rmation speech as WHO DirectorGeneral, Dr Margaret Chan asserted: “universal coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to off er. It is our ticket to greater effi ciency and better quality. It is our saviour from the crushing weight of chronic noncommunicable diseases that now engulf the globe”. The UN General Assembly is currently considering propo...

Correspondence to Vageesh Jain; [email protected] INTRODUCTION Universal health coverage (UHC) has received a great deal of attention over the past decade, with the WHO spearheading the global advocacy effort. Studies have demonstrated the ability of UHC to reduce mortality, and overcome existing health inequalities to create more equitable systems. 2 However, the role of UHC in preventing...

BACKGROUND The need to provide quality and equitable health services and protect populations from impoverishing health care costs has pushed universal health coverage (UHC) to the top of global health policy agenda. In many developing countries where the majority of the population works in the informal sector, there are critical debates over the best financing mechanisms to progress towards UHC...

The Disease Control Priorities (DCP) project has substantially influenced national and global health priorities since 1993. DCP’s basic framework involves identification of disease burdens based on premature deaths and disability and application of the most cost-effective interventions to the largest burdens, taking into account local feasibility. The future impact of DCP will need to take into...

UHC (Universal Health Coverage) is at the center of the Sustainable Development Agenda. In this study, the authors made an evaluation of the indicators allowing quantification of the impact of health coverage schemes on patients, applied in 4 sub-Saharan Africa countries: Rwanda, Burundi, the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Mali. After an analysis of potential health coverage indicators,...

The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Agenda offers an opportunity to realise the right to health for all. The Agenda’s “interlinked and integrated” Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide the prospect of focusing attention and mobilising resources not just for the provision of health services through universal health coverage (UHC), but also for addressing the underlying social,...

Ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all at all ages is the third goal of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This goal includes targets to further reduce maternal, infant and child mortality, as well as to “end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases”. Health syst...

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) can help countries attain and sustain universal health coverage (UHC), as long as it is context-specific and considered within deliberative processes at the country level. Institutionalising robust deliberative processes requires significant time and resources, however, and countries often begin by demanding evidence (including local CEA evidence as well as evi...

The role and support of the local government (Pemda) is very important in National Health Insurance (JKN-KIS) program to encourage Universal Coverage (UHC) by expanding coverage participation, improving service quality, increasing compliance. One efforts that can be made Regional Government participation integrate (Jamkesda) into JKN-KIS program. existence regulatory fragmentation disharmony me...

All countries worldwide have signed up to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and committed objective of achieving ‘universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access quality essential health-care services safe, effective, affordable medicines vaccines for all’. During COVID-19 pandemic beyond, advancement toward universal coverage (UHC) will become more difficu...